Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

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Everything takes time. Bees have to move very fast to stay still.

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The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.

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Fair speech may hide a foul heart.

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The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand i

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Our ability to adapt is amazing. Our ability to change isn't quite as spectacular.

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Who is John Galt?

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I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reac

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He was free, free in every way, free to behave like a fool or a machine, free to accept, free to ref

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I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the sol

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I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn

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No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowle

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Words do not express thoughts very well; every thing immediately becomes a little different, a littl

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Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing.

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When you realize there is something you don't understand, then you're generally on the right path to

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The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put toget

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It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, wh

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Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatne

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Once upon a time, I dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purp

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Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just fin

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